On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Anas Alnaffar wrote: >> Hello >> >> >> >> I’ve installed oracle DB and oracle application 10g with Cetnos5(HP >> Dl380 Dual Processor), but always I have big load average(CPU not id), >> plz advise >> >> > > Load average counts processes that are in iowait so your disks are probably busy. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com ...and the kernel needs to be tweaked for Oracle. You should find instructions in the Oracle install guide. Bazy